(1) A sample of black material removed from the back wall was analysed with a scanning electron microscope and was found to be similar to black pigment found by the Louvre in brown glazes on the Mona Lisa and the painting St John the Baptist, the team said.
(2) After five years passed with no owner coming to light, the copy was presented to the Louvre for indefinite safekeeping.
(3) But the retrospective at the Whitney in 1996, the last book I did, The Beautiful Smile , and my show at the Louvre were real high points.
(4) From here, as the architectural critic Ian Nairn noted, the Louvre looks like "the biggest railway station in the world".
(5) In 2007, Abu Dhabi paid £323m to use the prestigious Louvre name.
(6) When the president invited 10 of the world's most renowned architects to the Elysée last year and lauded architecture as art that the citizen "does not need a ticket for", Paris sat waiting for him to announce his own grand building project, along the lines of François Mitterrand's glass pyramid in the Louvre.
(7) We either believe in places like the Louvre in Paris, the Smithsonian in Washington, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, the National Gallery of Canberra as cultural centres of education and scholarship, addressing an international audience, or we hold that their collections should be redistributed and their purpose reduced to showing only French, American, Canadian and Australian art and artefacts.
(8) At least 500 people are in the pews and dozens more outside, peering through the open louvres.
(9) The Louvre later altered its story, claiming that the version of the Mona Lisa that had been returned from the mine was an excellent copy, not by da Vinci, but painted within a generation of his death.
(10) 2, home to hundreds of workers on the Louvre site, along with over 20,000 other men.
(11) On Friday, Hollande visited the Louvre, which will remain closed until Wednesday, while the Orsay will accept visitors once more from Tuesday.
(12) The International Trade Union Confederation , Human Rights Watch and campaign group Gulf Labor expressed disappointment after the second annual audit of conditions on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, where a new Louvre and the world's largest Guggenheim museum are being built.
(13) This report states that the team "saved such priceless objects as the Louvre's Mona Lisa".
(14) Addressing thousands of supporters in the grand courtyard of the Louvre, the vast Paris palace-turned-museum, Macron said he would defend France and Europe.
(15) "I therefore call on the UAE government, but also on all companies involved in the Saadiyat project – including [the] Louvre, British Museum and Guggenheim – to ensure that any form of mistreatment is addressed and that all migrants can fully enjoy their human rights."
(16) The abandoned quarries beneath Paris may be its most misunderstood and underrated piece of architecture The exploitation of chalk, gypsum and especially limestone endowed Paris with the cream-coloured stones used for the Louvre and in buildings of the Haussmann era .
(17) A result of the French government's decade-long decentralisation programme – which brought an undulating outpost of the Pompidou to Metz , north-eastern France, and a series of minimalist metallic sheds to the northern city of Lens for a Louvre satellite – Mucem is the first stand-alone national museum outside Paris.
(18) Many of France’s most famous museums including the Louvre, Musee d’Orsay and the Palace of Versailles will lend art to Abu Dhabi as part of a 30-year collaboration with the Emirate, worth £800m.
(19) The 700,000 sq ft, Jean Nouvel-designed Louvre Abu Dhabi will be one of the centrepieces of a new cultural metropolis on Saadiyat Island , a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to the city centre.
(20) The Nazi art theft division, the ERR (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), was responsible for the theft of around 5m works: from the Louvre, the Uffizi and countless churches, galleries and homes.